Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact. His most recent book is "America: The Farewell Tour" (2019).

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America's Class War: Organized Labor Is the Best Tool to Push Back Against the Rich

Organized workers, often defying their timid union leadership, are on the march across the United States.

Chris Hedges · Jan 19, 2022

Julian Assange, PEN America, and Ruling Class Acquiescence

Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class.

Chris Hedges · Dec 27, 2021

The US Empire's Slow But Determined Execution of Julian Assange

The journalist and Wikileaks founder committed the greatest sin. He exposed the imperial project as a criminal enterprise.

Chris Hedges · Dec 13, 2021

With Maxwell Sacrificed, the Ruling Oligarchs Will Once Again Escape Justice

The Maxwell trial will not hold the powerful men complicit in the rape and abuse of countless girls by the Epstein ring accountable or challenge the oppressive systems which fuel the scourge of male violence.

Chris Hedges · Dec 6, 2021

Steven Donziger and the Judicial Executioners of the Corporate State

Imprisoning the David to Chevron's Goliath is the latest outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of capital.

Chris Hedges · Oct 6, 2021

America's Unpleasant Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy

The competing systems of power are divided between alternatives which widen the social and political divide—and increase potential for violent conflict.

Chris Hedges · Sep 27, 2021